Tapscott was already in jail. “He’s in the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility for an unrelated charge,” Allen said. Tapscott was arrested two days after Menke’s murder and charged with assaulting a woman with the claw end of a hammer.

Layton Tapscott

Police are not discussing a motive or exactly how Menke was killed. “I don’t know if they were friends. I don’t really know their relationship, but they knew each other,” Allen said. Menke was found dead in his home on the afternoon of October 7.

Tapscott is currently serving a two-year sentence for the hammer attack. A police affidavit in that case shows the victim stated Tapscott said she would “end up like Julian Menke.”